Goodbye to the Government CIO

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Tony Collins reports that UK Government CIO, John Suffolk has already bade farewell to his colleagues and friends. I hope he isn’t replaced with a new Chief Information Officer. Continue reading article »

CIO = Cheap Infrastructure Officer?

Do businesses really regard their CIO as the Cheap Infrastructure Officer?

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Well that was the thrust of an extremely interesting observation made by Ilhan Aksoycan, who commented on one of my earlier articles about the future role of the CIO.

I am sure that many will dispute the attribution of cheap infrastructure as the Continue reading article »

The CIO is dead, long live the CIO

Hard times call for hard thinking, supplemented by effective action. Achieving and sustaining our future relevance in the currently turbulent economic context will need a radical new approach to the way we deliver value to our enterprise stakeholders.

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A good first step would be to scrap the role of Chief Information Officer and create a genuinely Continue reading article »

What it takes to be a successful CIO today

Four different views from Mike Tonkiss, Adam Burstow, Colin Beveridge and Dave Hansen

Long Live the CIO!

No, I haven’t done a spectacular u-turn. In my earlier posting (Nobody needs a Chief Information Officer) I promised to write more about my vision for the future role of the CIO as Chief Integration Officer so here it is as a summary view…

There are probably as many interpretations of the role of Chief Information Officer as there are Continue reading article »

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